Tuesday TV: Wall Street Bombs Again

Wall Street has had its ups and downs in recent weeks, but not so down as Sept. 16, 1920, when hundreds of pounds of dynamite on a horse-drawn cart exploded in front of Morgan Bank, killing 38 and injuring hundreds.

The first terror attack on lower Manhattan 98 years ago is brought back on “American Experience” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings), a kind of sequel to last week’s “The Gilded Age” in that it involves J.P. Morgan and some of the same historians. A radical reaction to the rich was suspected and young J. Edgar Hoover went on a tear about Communists, immigrants and cracking down in order to protect the nation. As heard of the FBI’s new “Radical Division,” he amassed more than 200,000 files on radical activities. And in November, a massive raid deported nearly 250 Russian immigrants including Emma Goldman.

The same sort of fear-mongering is going on now, of course, and a new “Frontline” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) finds that some teenagers detained on Long Island for wearing colors associated with the gang MS-13 have been jailed without charges for months.

Counter programming the Winter Games has been an opportunity for competing network to put on rushed, foreshortened versions of popular reality shows. In addition to the Omarosa showcase of “Celebrity Big Brother,” now there is the odd international feel of “The Bachelor Winter Games” (ABC, 8 p.m.), in which 26 past contestants from U.S. and international versions gather at a winter resort in Manchester, Vermont for competitions and flirting. Chris Harrison, who is already hosting Monday’s two hour episodes of “The Bachelor,” does double duty by hosting the four-episode series.

Prime time Olympics (NBC, 8 p.m.), by the way, includes figure skating, alpine skiing and snowboarding.

The second season of Jamali Maddix’s “Hate Thy Neighbor” (Viceland, 10 p.m.) concentrates on extremists from the U.S., starting with a pair of anti-abortion preachers.